Jeanne Hébuterne
A long neck, a tilted face and almond-shaped eyes: Modigliani's portrait of Jeanne, his wife and last model. Full commentary ↓
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Jeanne Hébuterne is an oil painting by Amedeo Modigliani (1919) in the collection of The Metropolitan Museum of Art. It measures 91.4 × 73 cm.
In the pictureA woman with reddish-brown hair pinned up sits with her head tilted slightly. Her neck is elongated, her face is narrow, and her eyes are painted blue, without pupils. Her clothes are dark brown, and the background is made of broad areas of ocher and gray. Every line curves softly.
BackgroundThe model, Jeanne Hébuterne, met Modigliani in 1917 at the age of nineteen and became his lover and muse; he painted her more than twenty times. When Modigliani died of tuberculosis in January 1920, Jeanne took her own life two days later. On leaving out the pupils, Modigliani is said to have told her, "When I know your soul, I will paint your eyes."
Puzzle tipThe forms are simple and the areas of color broad, so it is easy with few pieces and, because of the background, hard with many. Join the outline pieces of the face, hair and neck first to build the figure, then fill in the background using the boundary between ocher and gray as a guide. Tell the background pieces apart by the direction of the brushstrokes.
- Artist
- Italian, Livorno 1884–1920 Paris
- Classification
- Paintings
- Medium
- Oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- 91.4 × 73 cm
- Credit line
- Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Nate B. Spingold, 1956
Source: The Metropolitan Museum of Art ↗
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